Ukitiitg knitted webs



L. N. D. WILLIAMS. UNITING KNITTED WEBS- APPLICATIQN FILED JUNE I0,1915.

Patented Mg. 25, 1916.

2 SHEETS-SHEET I ags L. N. D. WILLIAMS. UNITING KNITTED WEBS.APPLICATION FILED JUNE 10, 1915;

Patented Aug. 15, 1916.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2- 1. 90225 M D. \A/ILLIAM LOUIS N. D. WILLIAMS, FOGONTZ, PENNSYLVANIA.-

UNITING KNITTED WEBS r on... Specification of Letters Patent. PatentedAug. 15, 1916.

Application filed June 10, 1915. SeriaINo. 33,244.

To all whom it may concern: f"

Be it known that I, LOUIS N..D. ;WIL-

I mans, a citizen of the United States, residing in Ogontz,Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Uniting Knitted\Vebs, of which the following is a specification. 1

My invention consists of a novel method of uniting the stitches atopposite sides of a knitted web, as, for instance, the stitches aroundthe mouth of a toe pocket and those around the forward edge of theinstep Web of a stocking foot.

In the accompanying drawing-Figure 1 is a sectional 'view of sulficientof a circular knitting machine to illustrate the first step in thecarrying out of the method in accordance with my invention; Fig. 2 is asimilar view illustrating the second step in said operation, and Fig. 3is a sectional view illustrating the final step.

In Fig. 1 of the drawing, 1 represents part of the needle cylinder of aknitting machine,

within which is mounted a sliding tube 2.

with a flange 3 at its upper edge. Upon this flange rests asemi-circular segment 4: having projecting points or quills 5 thereonwhich are adapted to engage with stitches formed upon the needles 6throughout one half of the circumference of the needle cylinder, thesegment i being disposed beneath the web produced upon these needles,and

during the knitting of the web occupying the position shown by dottedlines in Fig. 1, that is to say, with the points of the quills belowthose portions of the web holders over which the stitches are drawn.

l Vhen the stitches are to be transferred, a semi-circular segment 4,having downwardly pointing quills 5?, is applied from above the web tostitches formed upon the needles 6 extendin around the other half of thecylinder, and the tube 2 is raised so that its flange 3 causes a lift 01the segment at and the projection of the quills 5 of the same throughthe stitches upon the needles 6, as shown by full lines in Fig. 1. Atthe same time the needles 6, (3 are retracted so to cast the stitchestherefrom and the web holders 7, 7 are also retracted, as shown in Fig.2, so thatthe quill carrying segments 4 and 4 are free to be lifted tothe position shown in said figure. The segnient 4: and itsstitch-carrying quills is then folded over upon the segment 4 so thatthe points of the quills 5 overlap the bases of the quills 5, as shownby dotted lines in Fig. 2. The quill carrying segments, occupying theposition shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2, and with the stitches uponthem, are then applied to the carrier 8 of a looping machine to which anintermittent step by step movement is imparted so that the stitchforming needle 9 of'the looping machine can successively engage thestitches carried by the successive pairs of quills 5 and 5, the needlepassing first through the stitch carried by the quill 5 and then throughthe stitch carried by the quill 5 or vice versa, as shown in Fig. 3.After this has been done the quills 5 and 5 are released from engagement with the stitches carried by them and the segments 4: and 4 areremoved from within the web.

In the drawing I have, for convenience, shown but one of the quills ofeach of the segments 4 and 4 and have shown only two needles, one ateach side of the machine, as the showing in the distance of the quillsof each segment and of the needles around half of the circumference ofthe machine would tend to cause confusion.

My invention is not limited in its application to a circular knittingmachine but can be applied as well to knitting machines having straightneedle beds disposed back to back.

, I claim The mode herein described of uniting stitches on oppositesides of a knitted web, said mode consisting in first projecting stitchreceiving quills through stitches on one side of the web from below saidweb and projecting stitch receiving quills through stitches on the otherside of the web from above the same, then folding one set of quills withthe stitches upon them over into registry with the other set of quills,and causing the points. of one set of quills to overlap the bases of theother set, and then uniting the pairs of stitches upon the quills bymeans of a ,sepname to this specification, in the pi esence aratelyproduced chain of stitches, thestitch of two subscriblng Witnesses.

forming needle passing first through a stitch I v LOUIS N. D. WILLIAMS.on one of the quills and then through the Wltnessesz 5 stitch on thequill which registers therewith. KATE A. BEADLE,

In testimony whereof, I have signed my HAMILTON

